Not to rain on anyone's parade here, but these movies aren't really in the same category. Not even radical leftists expected F-911 to compete with Spiderman 2 at the box office.
On another note though, Spiderman 2 made almost 40 million on a Wednesday? Was that a record for a Wednesday opening? Seems huge!
Yes, that is a new wednesday recored. Previously held by LOTR:The Return of the King, at $34.5Million.
I have to say there are a lot of Freepers and others in denial over this. They've just about convinced themselves F911 is a flop. You can make negative comparisons with Hollywood blockbusters all you want, but for a documentary, it's wildly successful. F911 will make Moore and his backers a TON of money, and that's the bottom line. True, the revenues will be a fraction of Spiderman's but F-911's production costs were a fraction of Spiderman's too.
Spin it as a failure if you wish, but F911's box office is a huge validation for Michael Moore. You'll be hearing a lot from him and a host of imitators from here on. There are already two or three other ant-Bush documentaries out there that were having trouble finding distributors. Look for them to get signed up now.
This genre has the potential to do for the Left what talk radio did for the Right. Instead of sticking their heads in the sand, conservatives need to be finding ways to counter such propaganda. Better yet, they should be making films like this themselves.